TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boomgaard,Peter
AU  - Booth,Anne
AU  - Brocheux,Pierre
AU  - Brown,Ian
AU  - Clarence-Smith,William Gervase
AU  - Doeppers,Daniel F.
AU  - Kratoska,Paul H.
AU  - Lindblad,J.Thomas
AU  - Manarungsan,Sompop
AU  - Nawiyanto,S.
AU  - Nørlund,Irene
AU  - Touwen,Jeroen
AU  - Wolters,W.G.
TI  - Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression 
SN  - 9789812300805
AV  - HC441 
U1  - 330.959051 23
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - ISEAS Publishing, 
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; List of Contributors --; 1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction --; PART I Material Conditions --; 2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java --; 3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain --; 4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression --; 5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal --; PART II Agricultural Strategies --; 6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s --; 7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38 --; 8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression --; 9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression --; 10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s --; PART III Trading Communities --; 11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession --; PART IV The State's Response --; 12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China --; 13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s --; 14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region — through a sharp contraction in demand for the region’s major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural land leading to higher rents and lower wages, rising indebtedness and increasing landlessness. This work thoroughly analyses the pre-war depression. It also looks at the changes in the basic structures of the economies of Southeast Asia that were of long-term importance, such as the role of the state in the economy. The authors also draw similarities and contrasts between the 1930s depression and the 1990s Asian crisis
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